The insideAI News IMPACT 50 List for Q2 2022

The team here at insideAI News is deeply entrenched in following the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We’re in close contact with most of the firms making waves in the technology areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our in-box is filled each day with new announcements, commentaries, and insights about what’s driving the success of our industry so we’re in a unique position to publish our quarterly IMPACT 50 List of the most important movers and shakers in our industry. These companies have proven their relevance by the way they’re impacting the enterprise through leading edge products and services. We’re happy to publish this evolving list of the industry’s most impactful companies!

The selected companies come from our massive data set of vendors and industry metrics. We use machine learning to analyze the industry in a detailed manner to determine an optimized ranking for this list. We’re using a custom RankBoost algorithm adapted specifically for the big data community along with a plethora of public and proprietary data sources. The rankings include an indicator for upward movement in the list and also for companies newly added.

If you’re part of a company that you feel is “impactful” in some critical way please contact us to be added to our database in order to be considered for this list. Companies on the list exhibit technology leadership, strength of offering, proven innovation, positivity of message, quality perception in the enterprise, intensity and frequency of social media buzz, high profile of members of the C-suite, and in the case of public companies: positive financial indicators and stock price, and so much more!

IMPACT 50 LIST for Q2 2022 (in order of the most impactful)

#1 Google AI [NASDAQ: GOOGL]

#2 Amazon Web Services – Cloud based machine learning, database, container, and storage [NASDAQ: AMZN]

#3 NVIDIA – Inventor of the GPU for AI workloads [NASDAQ: NVDA] [+1]

#4 HPE [NYSE: HPE] [+1]

#5 Intel AI – Harnessing silicon designed specifically for AI [NASDAQ: INTC] [+2]

#6 Microsoft AI [NASDAQ: MSFT] [+1]

#7 OpenAI – AI research laboratory [+7]

#8 H2O.ai – Open Source Data Science and Machine Learning Platform

#9 Databricks – Unified analytics platform

#10 Dell Technologies [NYSE: DELL]

#11 DataRobot – Automated Machine Learning

#12 Domino Data Lab – Data Science Platform

#13 Teradata [NYSE: TDC]

#14 Qlik – Data Analytics and Data Integration [+1]

#15 Snowflake – Cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse [NYSE: SNOW] [+3]

#16 SAS – Analytics, BI, and data management [+1]

#17 Neo4j – Graph database [+2]

#18 TigerGraph – Graph database and analytics platform

#19 Salesforce Einstein AI – Smart CRM assistant [NYSE: CRM]

#20 Cloudera– Enterprise scale analytics platform [+2]

#21 Anaconda – Python Data Science Platform

#22 TIBCO – Integration, analytics and event-processing software [+3]

#23 Kinetica – The Database for Time & Space

#24 HEAVY.AI – Massively accelerated analytics and data science [+4]

#25 MongoDB – Cross-platform document-oriented NoSQL database [NASDAQ: MDB] [+1]

#26 Kaskada – End-to-end platform for feature engineering and feature serving [+1]

#27 Dremio – Data-as-a-Service platform

#28 DataDirect Networks – AI and Deep Learning Storage [+1]

#29 Neural Magic – No hardware AI, GPU speeds without GPUs [+9]

#30 StreamSets – Where DevOps meets data integration [+1]

#31 Fiddler Labs – Explainable AI

#32 Diveplane – AI explainable, auditable, editable

#33 SQream – SQL GPU data warehouse

#34 Verta – AL and ML deployment & operations for data science teams

#35 Alteryx – Self-service analytics, data science, data wrangling tools [NYSE: AYX] NEW

#36 Esri – GIS mapping software

#37 Tecton – Data platform for machine learning

#38 Pinecone – Vector database for ML applications [+1]

#39 Couchbase – NoSQL cloud database service [NASDAQ: BASE]

#40 Deeplite – AI-driven DNN optimizer

#41 ModelOp – Scale and govern enterprise AI

#42 Plotly – The front-end for ML and data science models [+3]

#43 Neuton – AutoML – no-code AI [+1]

#44 C3.ai – Enterprise AI [NYSE: AI] NEW

#45 WANdisco – Distributed computing specialists

#46 Molecula – Feature store [+2]

#47 Matillion – ETL software for cloud data warehouses

#48 Comet– Self-hosted and cloud-based meta machine learning platform

#49 MariaDB – Enterprise open source database

#50 Starburst – Analytics engine for data mesh

HONORABLE MENTION – 59 companies (in alphabetical order):

Actable AI – No-code data analytics with deep learning

Ahana – Ahana cloud for Presto

Alegion – Data labeling platform

Allen Institute for AI (AI2) – AI research and engineering NEW

Alluxio – Open source data orchestration for the cloud

Arize AI – ML observability platform

AtScale – BI & Data & Analytics software

Beyond Limits – Enterprise AI software solutions

Brytlyt – GPU accelerated analytics platform

causaLens – A machine that predicts the global economy in real-time

Cazena – Instant AWS data lake

Chatterbox Labs – AI model insights for trustworthy & fair AI

Cockroach Labs – Builders of CockroachDB

Coiled – Python for data science on the cloud with Dask NEW

Cortical.io – Natural language understanding

Coursera – Massive open online course (MOOC) provider

DataKitchen – Enterprise DataOps platform

Dataloop – Image and video annotation

DarwinAI – “AI Building AI” technology

Deci – Deep learning platform

Deepgram – Speech recognition

Digitate – AIOps

Exasol– In-memory analytic database

Faktion – Operationalize AI

Fero Labs – Using machine learning to optimize factory production

Gigaspaces – In-memory data platform

Graviti – Data platform to accelerate AI and ML

GridGain – In-memory computing platform

Guavus – Real-time big data analytics

Gurobi Optimization – Mathematical optimization solver

Hailo – Specialized deep learning processor for edge devices

Hypergiant – Hyperdrive data science platform NEW

Iguazio– Data science platform

Intuition Machines – Deep learning and visual domain machine learning at scale

Kyligence – Intelligent data cloud

Kyndi – Explainable AI platform

Lightmatter – Photonic computing

Logical Clocks AB – Feature engineering for MLOps

Loop AI Labs – Cognitive computing

Mipsology – FPGA machine learning

MOSTLY AI – Synthetic data NEW

Natural Intelligence – Pattern based neuromorphic computing

NetApp – Accelerated AI data pipelines

Obviously AI – Data science without code

OctoML – Deploy machine learning models

Peltarion – Deep learning cloud platform

Perceive – Ergo edge inference processor

Prophecy – Low code data engineering

Pure Storage Data storage solutions [NYSE: PSTG]

Qeexo – AutoML at the Edge

Qumulo – Scale-out storage

Rulex – Explainable AI platform

Run:AI – Platform for AI virtualization and orchestration

Sigmoid – Real-time data analytics

Spell – ML and DL platform

Striim – Real-time data integration

Toucan Taco – Data storytelling platform

Truera – Model intelligence platform

Yellowbrick – Data warehouse for hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Contributed by Daniel D. Gutierrez, Editor-in-Chief and Resident Data Scientist of insideAI News. In addition to being a tech journalist, Daniel also is a practicing data scientist, author, educator and sits on a number of advisory boards for various start-up companies. 

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